...d problem—an imbalance in the rules that define prop- erty in the information age. It is that problem, its history, philosophy, and politics that I try... ...of the battles over intellectual property, the range wars of the information age. I want to convince you that intellectual property is important, that... ...ty, to ex- plain why it matters, why it is the legal form of the information age. The second goal is to persuade you that our intellectual property po... ...the end. As I pointed out in the last chapter, the copyright term in most of Europe and in the United States now lasts for the life of the author and ... ...tal Millennium Copy- right Act, to trademark “anti-dilution” rulings, to the European Database Protection Directive. 18 The old limits to intellectual... ...rangement of data—C’s, G’s, A’s, and T’s. 34 Other challenges are overt: the European Database Protection Directive did (and various proposed bills in... ...ut it also provided substantial gains, gains that far outweighed the losses. Ironically, had the movie companies “won” in the Sony case, they might no... ...f impending doom from cheap copies were completely mistaken. The public and, ironically, the industry itself benefited as a result. But the Sony case i... ...a and thus has decided a lot of copyright cases over the years. There was an irony here. When the Supreme Court decided the Sony case, it was on appea...